and we saw christy back.y, happy, ready to get out there and live. >> reporter: and that night she did. the friends went out downtown hitting the clubs. now police had to consider whether christy told dagger she wanted to break up. if so, had he taken it badly? was that on christy's mind the morning she was murdered, or it christy angered someone else from that saturday night? police wanted to know more. >> where did you eat? where did you go dancing? where did you go after that? who was there? >> reporter: then something bizarre. the day after christy's murder, a man walked into her school. he clearly didn't belong there. >> i approached him and said, may i help you. >> bob was an assistant school superintendent. >> he said, oh, i'm just here to see christy mirack. i said, well, unfortunately, you're going to have to leave. christy has passed. >> reporter: the mysterious visitor said he hadn't heard the news. he claimed he was cchristy's friend, then he left. >> it was hard to believe that anyone in lancaste

people like chris christie. and i want to emphasize, chris christie is the most senior person who -- in the republican party who was in that debate room, right, with the president. preparing him for that debate. republicans like him and like senator ben sass, and this is ben sass here on tape. we have a tape for you talking about president trump to his constituents, a republican sitting senator. >> first he ignored covid, and then he went into full economic shutdown mode. he was the one who said, 10 to 14 days of shutdown would fix this. that was always wrong. and so i don't think the way he's led through covid has been reasonable or responsible. or right. >> i don't think the way he's led through covid has been reasonable or responsible or right. fl republican senator ben sasse. kaitlan, this is stinging criticism from the president's own party. >> reporter: yeah, an ben sasse has been a periodic critic of the president, but also in that audio, he says the president treated the pandemic like it was a news cycle

good morning, christi.s of events happening in the last 24 hours, firstly, i want to wish president trump as a physician that takes care of covid-19 patients a speedy recovery. to answer your question specifically about regeneron, this is a new treatment, a new theory, it's more a sophisticated version, christi, of convalescent plasma that takes the plasma along with other blood products and infuse them with somebody that is recovering from covid-19. with this new treatment, the antibody, it's a more specific antibody, a cleaner version, and what you're doing, you're specifically targeting covid-19 virus. so, if you think about that scientific explanation, it really does have a lot of promise. the problem, christi, is we don't have enough data on this monochromal antibody, and get this, we don't have an emergency use authorization that's been given, if you will, on a compassionate need basis to the president. am i concerned? of course, i'm concerned with any type of an experimental drug. at this point, in t

i'm christie paul. we have somebody else up early with us this morning. >> good morning, christi, i'm boris sanchez. we haven't gotten a chance to do this together in about a year. crazy to think about how much the world has changed since then. >> look where we are now, boris. look where we are now. ten days until this election and while we are rounding the final turn of the 2020 race, you just heard what the president said there, we are not, as he insisted again yesterday, rounding the turn of this pandemic. >> yeah. the u.s. now reporting its highest number of new coronavirus infections in one day since this pandemic started. again, the highest number of new infections in a single day. more than 83,000 new cases added yesterday. >> we'll let those numbers sink in for you and pull out some of these numbers that are so important. hospitalizations, for example, have increased by 33% this month, which means right now there are 41,000 people in the hospital fighting this virus. >> cnn correspondent paulo s

christi. >> sunlen, thank you. so, all of this is happening while there is exactly one month to election day. when i say exactly, i mean exactly, november 3rd. who better to talk to this an alex burns, he's a national correspondent for "the new york times" and cnn correspondent. alex, it's so good to see you, first of all, i think we have pictures here of the rose garden event where it is believe a lot of these people may have passed on the virus. take a look at how large that crowd is. at the end of the day, not a lot of masks being worn. certainly, no social distancing and vice president pence was there. to ryan nobles report of a couple minutes ago, how do they hold a vice presidential debate that is scheduled to happen on wednesday. and why would vice president mike pence not be in quarantine right now? >> it's a great question. and the answer is i think the stakes are pretty high for both folks in the presidential debate. i don't think either campaign wants to be seen as backing away from the event. and by wed

christie says we can use this to bring the country together. never too late to start. will take leadership that challenges and trusts the american people, end quote. it is too late. for 222,000 americans and their families, he fails to mention that. he also says, quote, it is never comfortable to deliver real criticism that includes yourself, but it was a serious failure for me as a public figure to go maskless at the white house. i paid for it, i hope americans can learn from my experience. i am lucky to be alive. it could easily have been otherwise. and it was otherwise for so many people. and it will be for so many more until politicians that have the president's ear, like chris christie, actually say what the hell they mean. this is no time for lukewarm leadership. many americans won't be as lucky as governor christie who checked himself in the hospital. >>> nancy pelosi is close to a deal on a stimulus bill. is there any chance of it happening before the election? .. .. joint pain, swelling, tenderness. my psoriasis. cosentyx works on all of this. cosentyx can hel

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now, this information, i should tell you, comes from christie himself.definitely feeling achy, has a slight fever, but is under the care of doctors in and around him, obviously, at the hospital. the other thing i should tell you is that when he was checked into the hospital, he began a treatment course of remdesivir, which as we know from covering this for many months, is usually given to patients who have a lot of trouble breathing. as i said, so far, that hasn't happened. but because of his history with asthma, his doctors decided to get him on that treatment course right away, wolf. >> the president is at walter reed hospital, he's getting the remdesivir treatment, as well. the president is also getting this monoclonal antibody cocktail that regeneron has put forward, very experimental antibody cocktail, any indication that governor christie is going to do that as well? >> as you know, in order to get that, because it is experimental, you have to have approval from the fda for what's called compassionate use. and that is what the president had to get

reporting live in san francisco, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, christie. >>> california is getting out to vote. the secretary of state's office says more than 22 million people are registered to vote this election. that's 88% of the number of californians who are eligible to vote. it's also about 2.5 million more people registered than the last presidential election back in 2016. we're also seeing a record number of people voting early. check out this line we saw earlier today at a voting center in brentwood. we talked to a woman who was in line for 45 minutes and she was only halfway there. the contra costa county registrar's office says a little more than half of all registered voters in that county have already voted by mail or in person. >>> this election year sports fans can combine voting with their love of the game. as of tomorrow, the warriors blue and gold will be more red, white, and blue at the former practice facility in oakland. today workers finished setting up voting stations and drop boxes for alameda county voters. like other local sports venues, it will

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>> so, christi, you're saying it's a lose/lose proposition. i mean, this is the problem.ebates only work if everybody who's involved in them plays by the same rules that they agreed to. so, when a debate turns into like a trolling sort of situation or a spectacle, you are getting some of the -- you know, you're getting information as a voter. but it's not like substantive information. you're getting information about people's strategy for communications. but if you want to get actual answers to like a policy or how somebody would govern, you can't get it in a situation like that. you can't get it in a situation where the debate doesn't exist, but for a debate in person, certain safe guards have to be observed. you know, at the point that the commission is making these decisions, nobody at the white house was able to share publicly whether or not -- when the last time the president had a negative test was. you have to be able to protect the health and safety. the last time the campaign included the president was, you know, not wearing masks in places where groups are weari

while the source of transmission is unclear, christie attended a rose garden event a week ago that's coming under new scrutiny that saturday, more than 100 people gathered to celebrate president trump's latest supreme court nominee, amy coney barrett. >> thank you >> reporter: guests mingled, hugged, and kissed on the cheek, most without wearing masks. new photos of an indoor reception following the outdoor ceremony show the president in close contact with guests. no one wearing a mask. >> the optics of the event last saturday at the white house were terrible we just had people next to each other, handshaking, every possible opportunity to spread the coronavirus was visible in that one short scene. >> reporter: now seven days later at least eight people who attended the ceremony have tested positive for coronavirus including kellyanne conway, president trump's now former senior adviser utah republican senator mike lee, seen at the event hugging and kissing other guests and not wearing a mask republican senator thom tillis of north carolina, and notre dame president john jenkins. he s

>> reporter: yeah, good morning, christi , it's a terrible situation.hat physician all over the country have dreaded. we're not even in the thick of the cold and flu season and the cases are 60,000 new cases already. if you look at the right of our screen, you can actually multiply those cases by ten, unfortunately. we know for every one covid case that's diagnosed, there are ten people that go undiagnosed. recently, christi , the ihme model was predicting, what's going to happen as the surge continues? are hospitals going to be ready? if you look at the current number of bed in the u.s., we have about 1 million and get this, we're going to need 4 million beds by january. so to answer your question more specifically, you know, obviously, we all want to be optimistic. we have to deal with the numbers. we have to deal with the surges. it's back to what we have always been saying. everybody has to really kind of tighten the grip and, unfortunately, we're going to take off linearly in the next few weeks. it's going to get worse. >> the medical community has

scotland's national side is hit too, as stuart armstrong tests positive with kieran tierney and ryan christied to self isolate as well. the covid delayed french open reaches the business end — with novak djokovic currently in quarter final action the latest from roland garros is coming up. and also on the programme, amidst the pandemic new figures show a sharp rise in the number of footballers concerned about their mental health. players struggle and we struggled to be supported by contract and i think these players will be coming forward to us for emotional support because of that. thanks forjoining us. you'll see coronavirus dominating much of tonight's programme, with cases on the rise in the uk — sport is being affected too. we start with rugby union and if you're a supporter of sale sharks you'd have been hoping to see them keep their title hopes alive by beating worcester this evening. but after 19 cases of covid in the sharks camp forced sunday's match to be postponed — a further six players now testing positive. meaning the game is off. worcester have been awarded the win, and sale mi

chris christie was saying things like we got to re-open.f that means people will die, then so be it. all of us wonder -- the science has been telling us what we should do. it doesn't mean shutting down the economy. it means staying safe. we're still having that conversation, nicolle, as we go into a third peak with 60 to 75,000 new cases a day. >> it's an unbelievable new high for us. dr. patel, let me read you more from the christie op-ed. i hear what you're saying. he doesn't mention donald trump who is the biggest purveyor of misinformation around the pandemic. christie continues those who deny scientific realities of the pandemic undermine conditions that allow for complete re-opening. they encourage behavior that invites personal tragedy. people need encouragement to do the right thing. enduring i believe we can use this public health tragedy to bring our country together. it's never too late to start. it will take leadership that challenges the american people. there are a lot of theories of why he doesn't name trump in here. what he'

what concerns you most about governor christie's health? >> reporter: you know, he did report just a few minutes ago that he has a history of asthma. he know that increases complication rate. and it's not surprising, in addition to the rose garden, he was inside a room during the debate preparation. nobody was wearing masks, he said. and we know coronavirus can spread in these tiny droplets in a room farther than six feet. that's why it's so important to wear masks. >> o'donnell: all right, dr. jon lapook, thank you. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell now says the senate will not meet in person for two weeks after three republican senators tested positive for coronavirus in just the past 48 hours. but tonight, he's still pledging to move fill speed ahead to confirm amy coney barrett to the supreme court. here's cbs' nancy cordes. >> hello. >> reporter: senator mike lee seemed fine on wednesday, but by thursday, he had symptoms. that's the same day he sat next to wisconsin's ron johnson, who has now tested positive, too. so has north car

no christie lady could access a christie wig, and ijust thought, this can't carry on.stockport. ringing! one photo later, and sue was the very first to benefit. hi, sue, how are you? i'm very well, thank you, under the circumstances! "are you on whatsapp?" "yes, lam." "send me a picture." that was on the tuesday. on the thursday afternoon, i had a wig. to be honest, i was so emotional about it, because that was a big bugbear, losing my hair. between cancer and covid and baldness, you are honestly more worried about baldness, won't you? yes, yes. let's have a little twirl, please. this time last year, i would never have said i would have been sat talking to you like this. and the many compliments i have had, it's just unbelievable. aww. we are both sending you one of these. it's a virtual hug. thank you so much, girls. you get better soon, sue. yeah? with all this positivity, i'm sure i will. yeah, exactly. 0h, oh, my goodness. we wish sue and everybody in that film the best of luck on their cancerjourney. there has been a herculean effort to keep cancer services going

let's listen to governor chris christie again. we know trump supporters out there, the president tells them don't listen to us, the scientists, dr. fauci, the data, don't listen. here's a guy who, as dana said, on his own time and dime tried to help the president with the first debate. listen. >> i was led to believe that, you know, all the people that i was interacting with at the white house had been tested. and it gave you a false sense of security. it was a mistake. i've been so careful for seven months because of my asthma, wearing masks, washing my hands, social distancing and for seven months i was able to avoid the virus in one of the worst hit states in the country, in new jersey. but i let my guard down. and it was wrong. it was just a big mistake. >> there's a proud stubborn man, chris christie, it was wrong, a mistake. we never heard those words from the president of the united states about the superspreade n event at the white house. >> that's right. he's trying to lead by example, he's signaling to a president who, e

we're waiting on chris christie as well.ould the next ten to 12 days look like for these people? >> well, for folks who have gotten sick, they're going to have to watch their course. we wish them all no symptoms at all. if symptoms, mild symptoms and a speedy recovery. but they're going to have to be quarantining for up to 14 days or beyond. and for folks who have been exposed they really ought to be isolating as well because they've been exposed and they need to be tested regularly. i'll be honest with you, even when you think of vice president pence, i recognize the political need to be out there. there is someone out there exposed to sick people and really ought to be isolating in the circumstance. this really will have reverberating consequences because these are chains of transmission. we now know the group of people affected but each one has a whole change of contacts that themselves may have been exposed if that person ends up having contracted the disease. so this really do have ripples into the upper echelons of ame

let's get ryan christie back in and anthony zurcher before we end. —— ryan christie.white house for presumably a week of quarantine. i think this week will be pivotal. we will see how he recovers them or whether his health continues to improve and then he has already tweeted he wants to have the campaign trail very soon. there will be a lot of criticism of that if he does it but you can tell donald trump feeds off of his crowds and is based, he wants to feel like he is getting out there doing something, sol think this next week will be very telling. ron, who has been with the president is now, perhaps not flying around on marine one, but you know what i mean,... iwant to marine one, but you know what i mean,... i want to echo anthony. what a remarkable hour we have seen in american history. our president leaving the hospital wearing a mask, and want to read to preserve his health, and get we see him come back, you see him go to the top of the steps of the truman balcony and remove the mask. what image, what impression will that have been the american voters who are qu

—— ron christie?r another week, is that a noticeable difference —— stays in karen quarantine... i don't know anyone who is undecided. there is president from getting on the helicopter. sorry to interrupt. my friends and family, they all made up their minds to is the thing critical for the president. he wanted to be in arizona. he wanted to be in florida. he even they seek and win, and i don't disagree with him, in minnesota. there were so many critical gretel —— battle grounds. the president of the united states come with this illness, it has kept him off the truck. maybe you're going to pick up 100 people, 1000 people, 2000 people. it is too soon to say, but donald trump, we both know, loves being in front of crowds, in audience, and you know that's exact what he wants to do once he has been clear by his medical team. and having the vice president, mike pence come out there in his stead, it is just not the same, is it crucial it is not. and let me say this, because i've been very critical of the post

. >> former new jersey governor chris christy was also in attendance. >> i was tested every day that i went to the white house. the last test i took was on tuesday morning, and i was negative. and, we, you know, are now going, i'm going to go and get a test this morning. to see if that status has changed. i feel fine. i don't feel any symptoms at this time. no one was wearing masks in the room when we were prepping. the president, during that period of time and we were, the group was about five or six people in total. >> on monday afternoon, the president and vice president walked out into the rose garden maskless, to give an update on the nation's coronavirus testing strategy. >> and it's important to remember that as younger and healthier people return to work, and as we massively increase testing capacity, we will identify more cases and asymptomatic individuals in low-risk populations. this should not cause undue alarm. >> the next day the president traveled to cleveland for the first presidential debate. during their first debate, the president and joe biden maintained social di

chris christie tested positive. said he had mild symptoms.re beds needed for people who have beyond mild symptoms? is that normal, doctor? >> one wouldn't be admitted to a hospital with mild symptoms. so either the former governor is sicker and i hope he is not and he gets better quickly or he is nervous about a potential outcome. he has obviously struggled with his weight over the last many years and obesity particularly that level of obesity is a very strong risk factor for a bad outcome. so i am concerned about him. i don't fault him for going to the hospital. i'm sure he is nervous. but he's either doing this because he has connections, he is the former governor and can do this, something that the average american cannot do, or he is sicker. frankly i hope he is not sicker. i hope he is just doing this because he can. >> don, can i ask dr. reiner a question? >> sure. >> doc, i saw that, i watched the president tonight and the thing that occurred to me was this is unhinged. and it makes me wonder with all the drugs that he has on board do

christie was also in the room for the president's debate prep.ive of the nine there have tested positive. >> were folks wearing masks? were you wearing a mask? >> no. no one was wearing masks in the room when we were prepping the president during that period of time. >> reporter: three senators have now tested positive for the virus. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said he will be canceling all senate votes for the next two weeks. but he made it clear the senate will be coming back for the confirmation hearing of the president's supreme court nominee, judge amy coney barrett. that is scheduled for october 12th. democrats are slamming the move calling it reckless and dangerous. eva? >> rachel scott for us at walter reed, thank you. >>> joining us now is chief medical correspondent dr. jen ashton. thank you so much for being with us this morning. in rachel's piece, we saw the video of the president speaking from the hospital. he said in that video the next few days are the real test. now we've been told that the president's vital signs were

i'm christi paul on this saturday morning.ook who's here. >> always a pleasure to be with you, christi. i'm boris sanchez in for victor blackwell. >> absolutely. good to have you as always. listen, americans, all of you, we have ten more days to decide who eye want to lead the country out of this worsening coronavirus crisis that we're watching. the president insists that we're, quote, rounding the final turn of this pandemic. but the reality, it looks more like a u-turn, cases are surging yet again. >> yeah, the u.s. now reporting its highest number of new coronavirus infections in one day, since the pandemic started. again, the highest number of new infections in a single day. more than 83,000 new cases added just yesterday. >> and i want to get these numbers right. make sure that they're really sinking in here. look at the hospitalizations. they've increased by 33% this month. right now, there are 41,000 people until the hospital who are fighting this virus. >> this d.c. art display is a visual representation of the lives t

. >>> chris christie after his seven-day icu stay urging president trump to do more to encourage masks even as the president spreads more misinformation. >>> the horrific attack, a teacher brutally attacked near a school authorities investigating it as an act of terror. what we know about the suspect. >>> the tragic death of an mlb star, the former team employee indicted today, the charges he now faces. >>> the new forecast just out for winter. will it be warm or a wallop >>> and the end of an era in the soda aisle. >>> this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening. americans didn't get the face to face presidential debate they may have been looking for but last night's dueling town halls offered flash points in what ended up being a revealing split screen examination of donald trump and joe biden. the president whose abrupt withdrawal from the debate ultimately led to the separate network town halls nonetheless found himself challenged at nearly every turn. geoff bennett has details. >> reporter: two town halls as different as the candidates themselves president trump p

i'm christi paul. look who we woke up early. >> great to see you, christi. i'm boris sanchez in for victor blackwell. for now, ten days before the election. while we are rounding the final turn of the 2020 race, we're not as the president continues to insist and, again, on friday rounding the turn of the pandemic. >> yeah. the u.s. is reporting now its highest number of new coronavirus infections in one day since this pandemic started. again, the highest number of new infections in a single day. it was more than 82,000 new cases yesterday. we'll let these numbers sink in for you in a minute and break out some of the most important ones. hospitalizations have increased by 33% this month. and right now there are 41,000 people in the hospital fighting the virus. cnn's paulo sandoval is with us from new york for the very latest. paulo, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, guys. you mentioned hospitalizations. here in new york the situation isn't that much better. hospitalizations the highest they've been. it does not look good. we heard from one last

chris christie tested positive. checked into a hospital. he's 58 years old. excessive weight, asthma, what are the concerns for governor christie based on his profile and what we know about the virus? >> sure. we know obesity tends to be a risk factor for more high risk complications from co-vid. we know there were other underlying medical conditions that confirm a higher risk profile as well. he has some of those. it puts him at higher risk. i'm really glad that he is under medical care and getting appropriate care. i do want to say there are a lot of americans in this country. we've had over 200,000 deaths. there are a lot of americans that are not able to get the care that some of our political leaders are getting. i'm saying that to say i want us all to get proper care. proper monitoring, et cetera. it goes back one step further. i want us to be wearing masks and social distancing so we don't get in this situation if possible. i'm glad chris christie is under medical care at this time. >> we all are. yeah. we want everybody to be all right here. doctor, a

chris christie was at the super spreader event for amy comey barrett. he was in the debate prep sessions where many people we now know have become sick. this is what chris christie says this morning, kaitlan. >> we need to be telling people that there is no downside to you wearing masks. leaders all across the politics, sports, the media should be saying to people, put your masks on and be safe until we get a vaccination. i let my guard down. i made a mistake. i was wrong and i'm fortunate to be sitting here this morning in good health. >> we need to be telling people there is no downside to wearing masks. put your masks on. kaitlan, such a start difference before i get to you than what we heard from the president of the united states who is spreading misinformation in his town hall. listen. >> as far as the mask is concerned, i'm good with masks. i'm okay with masks. i tell people wear masks but just the other day they came out with a statement that 85% of the people that wear masks catch it. >> what? -- >> -- >> -- i know that study. >> -- dla's what

>> it's pretty deep, christi. thchgs a guy who was in the '70 as seen as a patron saint of police officers and in his current campaign you have the major national police unions all backing trump and even sort of less prominent police groups either sticking with the president or staying silent because joe biden is seen by much of their announcement of being on the wrong side. he's clearly done a good job of reminding american voters that he's not in favor of violent rioting, protests that get out of way in ways that disrupt public order. he's promised as president he would bring police groups and social justice activists to the same table to pass an agenda. if there's one person in his party who maybe hats history of relationships with police groups to do that it's probably joe biden, but the environment has just changed so much since the last time he was on the ballot. >> so i also want to talk about some "washington post" reporting this morning that president trump has privately told donors, gop, holding the sena

former new jersey governor chris christie says he spent a week in the icu fighting covid. what he regrets not doing. >>> loose lemur. a stolen animal from a california zoo has been found. the possible motive behind this bizarre break-in. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we're going to begin this friday morning with president trump and joe biden's separate town halls. the rivals offered different approaches to key issues including the coronavirus pandemic. the struggle to contain the outbreak comes as more than 63,000 new cases in the u.s. were reported just yesterday. that's according to johns hopkins university. that's the most in one day since late july. and the seven-day average for new cases is spiking in at least 38 states. so laura podesta is in washington. laura, what were some of the bigger takeaways from the town halls? >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. president trump is facing some criticism this morning for distorting a recent study. and falsely saying that 85% of americans who wear a mask end up catchin

christie tweeting this. i just received word that i am positive for covid-19. i want to thank all of my friends and colleagues who have reached out to ask how i was feeling in the last day or two. i will be receiving medical attention today and will keep the necessary folks apprised of my condition. dr. sanjay gupta, all right, now the list is growing of people who have tested positive that have been in close contact with the president. >> yeah. i mean, it's become very clear that the white house itself is a hot spot, a hot bed of viral activity. so many people at these events, and we know chris christie was at that event but also the -- he did some debate prep and there was other people at that debate prep as well. i mean, this is going to be a real medical investigation. frankly, it could have been avoided by basic public health measures. i think everyone realizes that by now. now it's going to turn into a significant spreading event. where not only the people there but now their families and other people they may have come into contact with are going to need

>> reporter: good morning, victor and christi. president trump spending significant time in pennsylvania with four events across the state. just showing you how valuable the trump campaign sees pennsylvania with 20 electoral votes. this is a key prize for president trump. one of the states that the next president of the united states is likely going to have to carry in order to win next week. it is one of the states where we may not know the results on election night because of the volume of mail-in ballots and the way the state counts them. it is a suspenseful situation here. the president with the four campaign events as he heads on the blitz over the next three days. he will hold 14 rallies between now and election day. this is not the last time we will see him in pennsylvania. trump is spending a lot of his final hours of the race in pennsylvania. we expect joe biden will spend time there. it is very important for president trump. if you talk to republicans, they still see hope in pennsylvania. although you mentioned joe biden

>> reporter: yeah, good morning, victor and christi, good morning to you.ht here there are even more people behind us. right now, according to the cobb county website, it says here people 75 years or older or disabled requiring assistance they can actually ask to be bumped to the front of the line. that's the situation for you do not wait this wait time scare you. but i just want to let you see what we're seeing here, so if the wait is about four hours and the doors just opened at 8:00, less than 30 minutes ago. we're already see something voters come out and be finished with their voting. we're seeing about 30 people -- 31 -- 31 people who have finished voting thus far. and i just want to walk you through the rest of the line that we're seeing, it doubles back a couple of times, and it goes all the way to the front of the entrance. and, by the way, this isn't even the entire line. there's another section of the line that is beyond, down another corner over there. so this does go quite a ways. people have been prepared. they have brought their lawn chairs.

reporting live in calistoga, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, christie. our nbc bay area app is a great resource. it will keep you informed in real time. our team will send alerts through the app when conditions change over the next weekend here. you can download it for free at the app store. >>> a vital california political issue played out on twitter today. governor newsom vowed to appeal the trump administration's refusal to make a disaster declaration for california's august fires. then a couple of hours later, he tweeted, just got off the phone with donald trump who has approved our major disaster declaration request. the governor went on to add, grateful for his quick response. the request was for help for the bobcat fire in los angeles county and five other fires in south and central california. extremely rare for a president to deny a disaster request. >>> not just a sign on the hill that we show you. there was also a warehouse fire in south san francisco. this broke out about two hours ago on starlight court. that's right near the south city fire

and tonight after coming down with the virus, former new jersey governor chris christie saying it was a big mistake not wearing a mask at the white house for that rose garden event and for debate prep. what he now says every leader should be urging, describing his symptoms and the week he spent in the icu. >>> new evidence released in that alleged plot to kidnap the michigan governor. tonight, the videos and images with suspects appearing to show off their weapons, doing surveillance on the governor's home, and text messages about the plot. tonight, what defense attorneys for the suspects are now saying. >>> the terror attack near paris. the middle school teacher murdered right outside his school, his throat slashed. police then shooting the attacker. and what we've learned tonight. >>> the wildfires in california. the trump administration reversing course tonight after at first rejecting a request for help from california. >>> several cities in the east hit with heavy rain and dangerous driving. when this heads out. and tonight, noaa with the new winter outlook for the country. rob m

what former governor chris christie is saying after spending seven days in the icu with covid about not wearing a mask at the white house for that rose garden event and debate prep, saying it was all a big mistake. here's alex perez. >> reporter: tonight another grim milestone, more than 8 million americans infected with the virus. cases now climbing in nearly every corner of this country. >> seeing the heat map, how it lights up with test positivity, that is in more than 30-plus states is going in the wrong direction. >> reporter: 39 states with rising hospitalizations, 13 hitting records just this week, and now the number of deaths also climbing at more hospitals get overwhelmed. >> all of our frontline providers, who are doing an amazing job taking care of our patients, as many know there has been a huge surge of cases in utah. our hospitals are getting full. >> reporter: the first covid patients arriving at that field hospital set up outside milwaukee. after spending seven days in the icu, former new jersey governor chris christie telling "gma" the virus hit him like a freight train

christie was also part of trump's debate prep teams. that group also reportedly included hope hicks, who has covid-19, kellieanne conway, rudy giuliani, who right now has not tested positive for the disease, as far as we know. joining me now is the president and the ceo of biotechnology organization dr. michelle mcmurray-heath. she's the founding director of the aspen institute's society policy program with a focus on pandemic preparedness. thank you no joining us. we appreciate you being here. everything i just said is separate and apart from the fact on tuesday at the presidential debate donald trump again spoke about a vaccine being ready, he said, in a matter of weeks. the immense pressure on public health and scientists, i don't think i've ever seen this before. people are being forced to doubt science, because they're not being told the truth. >> it's unprecedented. we need to see clarity and need the leaders left alone from politics to do their job. the fda is full of accomplished scientists who knows this field inside and out. t

economy and markets with both co-host christi christie always a pleasure to have you on how should we interpret these numbers as it looks to be a mixed bag you have a bad number for new claims but a better number for continuing claims well rather just kind of like another sign that the labor market is actually struggling as cases rise and worries are increasing over renewed wave as we get into the fall and winter months so right you just mentioned the fact that there is an 8 percent unemployment rate which is bad and it's double the 1st number of the prepared that i leveled but the thing is that's not the true number the official unemployment number is actually artificially depressed because it actually excludes people who might be are in a few dollars a week or anyone who has already been discouraged by the lack of jobs out there so to be officially counted you actually need to be earning their own money at all and actively seeking employment those are the official benchmarks so if we take all of that into account and instead we measure unemployment as anyone who is looking for a ful

chris christie, obviously, this is very personal. trying to get the president ready for a debate and clearly got the coronavirus there. and it was not very subtle in what he was saying, you know? i'm from new jersey, but i don't think you have to be from new jersey to get what he was trying to get across, which is that the -- he was told that the white house was a safe zone. everybody was tested. the president clearly we don't know when he was tested last. it's unclear if he was and he also made clear that public officials, wink, wink, nod, nod, need to stop saying this -- it's okay to get it, you'll be fine because that's not the case. with ben sasse, anderson, let's be clear. he went through a primary season in his home state and so he feels more safe to say this, but he was responding to a constituent asking why he criticizes the president. and he went completely off. i think what you're seeing there is preparing for a post-trump republican party. and that's going to be people like ben sasse thinking about where they fall in line

chris christie is among the latest. he's now one of eight people who attended last saturday's white house ceremony for supreme court nominee amy coney barrett, who has since tested positive. >> reporter: the debate between vice president penson senator harris is still on for wednesday but debate organizers are putting some space between vice president pence and harris to keep them safe. the candidates originally were only supposed to be seven feet apart on stage but now they will be 12 feet. it's not clear if future debates between trump and biden are still on the table, after that positive diagnosis for the president. the commission on presidential debates, declined to comment about the issue yesterday. >>> onto the fire watch now, this harrowing photo was taken the night the glass fire broke out. cal fire releasing this image today and you can see the hillside in flames above a vineyard, all in crystal springs road in napa county. about two hours ago, evacuation warnings were lifted in parts of santa rosa but the blaz

christi, victor. >> christina, thank you.t and maria cardona, cnn political commentator but democratic strategist. they are the host of hot mikes from left to right. ladies, welcome. >> alice, let me start with you. the big number, 99,321. that is now a world record for single coronavirus cases reported in a day, and there have been five u.s. records in the last eight days. how does this president get up on to a stage in front of thousands of people and with a straight face say we're rounding the corner? >> look, clearly the numbers are not going in the right direction, and we would love to see this take a dramatic turn and our concerns as we get into the winter months, but the good thing is that people are learning to use precautions. we're learning to wear masks, social distance. i am encouraged by the words of the president that say that we do have a vaccine in the very near future, and that's very good news to hear. look, one death is too many. one case is too many, but the fact that we are putting a greater emphasis on t

to talk to chris christie go home and do his job and get the stimulus package passed. >> yeah, go ahead. >> we talked a lot about what trump did in his town hall. biden was quite good in his. he was calm. he was detailed. he was confident. he related well to people and inspired a sense of confidence. and the trump campaign put out a state deriding him as mr. rogers. well, you know what, mr. rogers was pretty darn popular for a reason. and in contrast to donald trump, mr. rogers seals like quite a relief. i don't know if they each have a grasp on what is going on here or they wouldn't send out a statement like that. >> david axel rod, dave david gergen thank you. programming note, the final debate will air on cnn next thursday night. live coverage starts at 7:00 p.m. >>> just ahead tonight, president trump on the attack. what he said just moments ago at his rally about nbc's savanna guthrie who was last night's moderator. ready to juvÉderm it? correct age-related volume loss in cheeks with juvÉderm voluma xc, add fullness to lips with juvÉderm ultra xc and smooth modera

so this is a very important point, christi. this is a very tricky virus.patients end up doing just fine and they don't necessarily have a worsening of their condition over time. others may seem to be doing okay insurely. in fact, many of these patients may get discharged from the hospital. but then they go home and may return because they worsen over time. actual actually, the median time from when somebody first starts getting symptoms to when they may need icu care is 10 to 12 days. so, we should be relieved that the president is doing well for now, if that's indeed the case, but we should not be breathing a sigh of relief quite yet because there's still some time to come. there's another point. we don't actually know what is the course of the president's illne illness, because we don't know when he last tested negative, which is important, because if he were actually getting daily tests and say he tested negative on wednesday and a positive test on thursday, we should be alarmed by how quickly the president is progressing, how quickly his symptoms are d

good to see you, christi as well.gers were up 2-1 and only six teams have ever come back from a 3-1 deficit to win a world series and one since '95 so this was exceptionally a must-win game. rays down 7-6 with runners on first and second and kenley jansen, backup outfielder brett phillips and here's how the moment sounded to fans around the world. >> it's a swing and a ball lined into right center, a base hit! kiermaier rounds third. >> the rays have won the game! the rays have won. oh, my! >> wow! my goodness, brett phillips who had only two career at-bats in the playoffs and zero playoff hits before in a at-bat notching his first career playoff knock, a wild walkoff hero. rays win 8-7. >> i'm having a hard time putting my emotions into words. you know, honestly it's hard to believe that things are going, like that just happened. when i saw randy slip, i was like oh, shoot, at least we tied it up, and then he missed the ball, i don't know what happened and the next thing i know he scored and next thing i know i'm air

christie says that he tested positive for covid-19. he was seen at the white house for several events last week, saturday and sunday. >> and as republican senators tillis, lee and johnson test positive for covid-19, mitch mcconnell says the senate judiciary committee will hold confirmation hearings for judge amy coney barrett on october 12th. the full senate is expected back on october 19th. outside walter reed with the latest on the president's condition, josh, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. as the president is recovering in the hospital behind me, we are learning new details about what was apparently a serious situation that he was in on friday after having contracted covid-19. publicly the white house and the president have tried to project an image of the president in control, doing fairly well. the president releasing a four-minute video last night saying he hadn't been feeling well but is feeling much better. his doctors even joking the president was ready to get up and walk out of the hospital. felt like he could do th

chris christie tweeting he was checking into a hospital for treatment. former new jersey governor and adviser to the president says he has mild symptoms but is doing this as a precaution because of his history with asthma. >>> mm wants itch mcconnell wan delay the return until later in the month after several have tested positive for coronavirus. however, he says committees can still meet. so, hearings to confirm supreme court nominee amy coney barrett are going to go ahead as planned. those are set to start on october 12th. the two vice presidential candidates far apart on the issues and their one and only debate on wednesday, they'll be far apart on wednesday. nbc news confirms because of the virus, senator kamala harris and vice president mike pence will be 12 feet apart. people around the world are wishing president trump and melania trump a quick recovery after testing positive from covid-19. >> reporter: today as the world watches and waits for the latest on president donald trump's health, reaction from world leaders still flowing in. >> i think w